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On February 15 2013, two weeks from today, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will begin the two-day process of choosing the three official candidates in the election […]
With cries of “Long live Zeman” ringing out around a packed conference room at the Top Hotel Praha Jan. 26, a triumphant Miloš Zeman bust ...
Gangster Squad is a big-budget film about the organized crime that nearly brought Los Angeles to a standstill in 1949. It’s half-fiction, half-f ...
The New York-based Human Rights Watch says authoritarianism in Russia is at its highest level in recent memory. In its annual World Report released ...
Bulgarian media group Payner said that it decided to forego the request for European Union funding for its expansion project, according to reports in Bulgarian media. Payner is best known […]
European Union statistics office Eurostat released on January 31 2013 its first-ever figures on changes in house prices in the EU and the euro zone, recording a 2.5 per cent […]
Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM), which makes the BlackBerry, says it’s back. The company is trying to reclaim a market it once dominated by introducing two new devices. […]
An intensive care specialist has been appointed to head Bulgaria’s Transplantation Agency after the incumbent was fired because it emerged that in 2012, only four transplants had been performed. Dr […]
The President of Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation, Lazar Gruev, has called for security zones about the country’s court buildings, a call issued in reaction to the assassination attempt against […]
Poland has hit out at an “incomprehensible” decision by the European Commission to freeze aid worth billions for Polish road building programs over a suspected price-fixing scandal. The European Commission […]
